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The Doghouse is an intimate, community focused space, offering classes & workshops. Our emphasis is Alright community, we're doing it!!!

Toni Dunne and Kristen Gilbert are manifesting a creative hub on our beloved property. We have an amazing 1000sq ft. room with 13 ft ceilings, gymnastic rings, ropes silks, swings and a pole... We will be hosting yoga, dance, circus, poi, hooping, art and monkey business classes and workshops!!! If you have an idea for a workshop, pitch it to us!!! We are located in Courtenay at 1690 Carron Rd.

09/22/2026

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles
through the desert, repenting
You only have to let the soft animal
of your body
love what it loves

-Mary Oliver

NEW small group offering! 🍂 ✨

Mary Oliver’s words are the entry point into an exploration of being a human body that senses, feels, thinks and perceives.

Over our 5 weeks together, we will somatically explore the three centres of intelligence (belly/body, heart, head) through noticing and being with ourselves in present time awareness.

The emphasis in this intimate group setting is on building safety, capacity, resilience, connection and mutual care.

Each gathering will begin with a led grounding and a group check-in.

The remaining time will be spent writing for process, sharing our experiences, working with creative process (art, ritual, poetry), all while developing tools and skills for being active operators of our autonomic nervous system.

This is an opportunity for being together in slower time. Leaning in and leaning out.
Tea and snacks provided.

SMALL GROUP MINI-IMMERSION

Every other Thursday beginning in October
5 x 2hr sessions (over 10 weeks)

Sliding Scale: $250-$300

Morning Cohort 930-1130am
Dates: Oct 8,22. Nov 5,19. Dec 3

Evening Cohort 530-730pm
Dates: Oct 15, 29. Nov 12, 26. Dec 10

DM me to inquire about a space
Or connect with me through my website, link in bio

📸: Joslyn Kilborn

09/12/2026

In just a few short weeks, Write For Your Life begins again for a turn through and an accompaniment to the season of descent.

Who is this offering for?

✨Long time or novice writers, all are welcome

✨Humans feeling overwhelmed and confused by the state of the world and wanting a solid place to land

✨Those wanting to work with writing as a way to resource themselves: establish a greater sense of ground, clarity and aliveness in their felt experience.

✨Folks wanting more structure and direction in (re)-igniting a personal writing practice

✨Humans wanting to gather in supportive community to share and witness each other in this tender and challenging time

✨Those longing to connect more deeply with their inner life, the natural world, human and other than human kin.

Note: This is NOT a course on the craft of writing. Rather, it is a guided practice in writing for process, writing with your whole body, writing to know yourself, writing for writing’s sake.

What’s included in this offering?

8 x 2hr Live Zoom call every Wednesday 10am-12pm PST
(calls will NOT be recorded, but poetry and prompts will be sent out in an email in the days following)

Live calls will include a combination of a led embodied exploration, group discussion, focused theme, psycho-education, prompted free writes, poetry and prose readings, opportunities to share and witness.

Follow Up email with poetry resources, prompts, practice suggestions, and podcasts.

❤️Investment❤️
Sliding Scale $150-$200 (In the currency of your country of residence)

06/08/2026

Thrilled to be back in the flow of teaching regular public classes at in Tintown.

This week begins a new schedule, and I’m excited to announce I will be teaching two early morning classes.

Morning Moves 7-8am
on Tuesdays and Thursdays

Class Description:

May this dynamic vinyasa inspired practice become a beloved ritual. Expect fluid and exploratory sequences that harness breath and cultivate mental clarity. Through lively embodied inquiry, simple breathwork and led meditation, participants will head out into the day energized and steady.

Who’s into starting their day like this?

And for those of you looking for some good pre bedtime nervous system hygiene, join me for an evening class

Embodied Practices
Wednesday
7-815pm

04/17/2026

YOGA!!

After a very long break from teaching public classes, I am excited to announce the opening of in tintown at the end of the month.

I am excited to be teaching two classes:

The Rhythm of Return
Tuesday
12-1pm

Embodied Practices
Wednesdays
7-815pm

Expect gentle, playful somatic exploration
breath work, soulful inquiry, poetry & care

Congrats for bringing your dream into form.

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04/05/2026

Spring session of Write For Your Life begins April 22nd. This is my only online offering, so for those of you who don’t live in the Valley, let’s hang! (Valley folk welcomed as well).

Each gathering includes:

✨led embodied grounding
✨microdose of connection
✨writing prompts and sharing (optional)
✨soulful conversations
✨tender holding

Sliding scale $125-$175

DM me to reserve your space in this growing community.

02/25/2026

A little memory from the second workshop in Re:SOURCE on Internal Family Systems.

It was so wonderful to share in a little
‘Little one show and tell”

IFS is such a wonderful modality for cultivating compassion for all parts of us, particularly these younger parts and the burdens they may still be carrying.

I’m considering running Re:SOURCE again this fall, if you are curious about joining the next cohort, send me a DM and I will happily add you on the mailout list.

Poem:

02/09/2026

The Roots Are Riotous:
a gathering of inquiry and acupuncture
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Sunday Feb 22nd
6-9pmbody

“And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter.
It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.”

—Rumi

Can you feel it? The stirring, the subtle rising, the coming back to life?

The snowdrops are about to bloom
bare branches are budding
the streets are swelling with bodies
singing and marching
delusion is falling away

We are collectively grappling with extreme levels of abuses of power all around us. Rivers of grief, infernos of rage, clouds of confusion, fear that’s hard to move through.

And these feelings, they are not personal pathologies. They are appropriate responses to the current circumstances.

So how do we join hands? How do we build bridges, and not walls?
How do we stay relational and connected in times of increasing polarization?

We can begin by examining and dismantling the binaries that keep us stuck: right/wrong, good/bad, left/right, fair/unfair.

We can begin by growing our capacity to be with nuance and not knowing, encouraging our hearts to stay open to possibility.

We can begin by learning to become active operators of our nervous systems, so that we might move through the world with more agency and care.

Please join us, Casey and Toni, for an evening of being in the stretch of it all, together. We will talk, share, write, move, rest and receive acupuncture.

Come and gather to remember that we are wired for connection.
Together we are powerful beyond measure.

Investment: $65-$80 sliding scale

Space is limited. To reserve your space please email Toni at [email protected] to confirm availability and then e-transfer to the same address.

Logistical details will be sent out upon registration.

01/27/2026

Write for Your Life
begins this Wednesday,
and runs for 5 weeks.

Jan 28-Feb 25
Online in the Zoom Room.

This is a shorter version of the usual
8 week offering.

I was waiting to relaunch this in the Spring, but I am hungry for ways to revel in poetry and process and community, and so I am offering this snapshot for anyone interested in practicing in this way.

Each 2 hour session begins
with a led-grounding, and a
wee check in.

We read poetry and spring board off into our own writing process with prompts and embodied practices.

No former experience is needed,
all are welcome.

Investment: $100

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01/10/2026

I had a lot of fun putting together this sweet little workbook for Re:SOURCE this time around.

The program begins this Sunday, Jan 11th with an opening circle and there is

✨ONE SPACE LEFT✨

If you are looking for a seasonal container that feels like a hug and a refuge and a reset, look no further.

We will share and witness, move and rest, write and create, listen, get curious, move slowly and with care.
Be together through these times that ask for good companionship.

I am so excited to begin again this seasonal rhythm with a new group.

Shout out to the good men at who are so generous, kind, infinitely helpful. Can’t say enough good things about these guys.

and to for her artistic vision and collaboration in bringing these dreamy photos to life (a few years back).

01/04/2026

This image is from the closing circle of last years Re:SOURCE cohort.

These were gifts offered into the circle by others, a surprise to us all and such a wonderful sentiment and kind gesture to our time spent together.

I love being in group spaces and seeing what can emerge and settle as a result of our synergy and togetherness.

Re:SOURCE an embodied immersion in care and remembering 2026 begins in one week! And I’m so delighted to welcome a new group into the space.

I am offering free exploration calls the next few days for anyone who is interested. Send me a DM to arrange a time.

For more info on the program head to my website (link in bio).

Address

1690 Carron Road
Courtenay, BC
V9N9K5

Telephone

+12507921382

Website

http://www.thedoghouseyoga.com/

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